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FWIW, I agree that a fridge is not a good location for a CFL. My opinion is due to temperature and usage patterns, not because of the mercury though.

I have a BlackBerry courtesy of my job. It's got push e-mail too. :p I'd rather not have it, but that's not an option.

Unless I wanted to rip all my DVDs, Blu-rays, HD-DVDs, and have them "online" I have no idea what I have that could possibly need that amount of storage, but then again maybe the folks with the crazy amounts of storage have different uses and content.

Holy shiznit you have a lot of storage. :bow:

What, the mercury is going to leach out through the glass? :skepo: Fluorescent tubes have had mercury in them since the beginning. I haven't noticed a bunch of mad hatters running around.

5 2TB HD's in RAID-0??? :skepo: You like to live dangerously. :idea:

You usually still have to get out of the car once you drive somewhere. :thumbright:

You could roll your own. It's just several SSD's on a PCIe x8 (or similar) RAID card. Grab a Dell Perc 5/i, 4 60GB OCZ Vertex SSD's, RAID-0 them, and bam...

That doesn't exactly sound like a server with 2 GTX295's. My server sits in the dark in the basement and rarely has the monitor turned on or keyboard used.

That's a lot of fans. Exactly what do you have in that thing? My main server has two 120mm fans for ventilation. I'm not sure exactly what they are. They came with the Lian-Li case. The lower one is a little noisy. I'm thinking to replace it. It also has an internal 92mm fan blowing...

No idea. I know Merc doesn't like them. I stopped buying them a while back and went to Seagate and Samsung.

I replaced one of the 120mm Scythe S-FLEX SFF21D (800RPM) in my backup server with an Antec Tri-Cool set to medium (~1600RPM) and temps on the CPU and HD's dropped about 5C. The Scythe's are great, but my backup server with a 3.0gHz Prescott P4 and six 7200RPM HD's generates too much heat. The...

The Perc 5/i is a monster. The 3ware is kinda ho-hum. Even after seeing the Perc 5/i's performance, had I known about the registry tweaks for the 3ware 7506-8 it would have been more than adequate in my main server. I wouldn't have felt the need to upgrade for speed. It was just over half...

Technically you have to be a student enrolled in at least .5 credits, not just have an edu address.

Xoxide was closing them out for $9.80 each during their going out of business sale last week. I picked up 5. :D

I see a lot of white LED lights in the glass door freezer units at the grocery store as of late.

There, I fixed it for you. :rofl:

That depends on the driving circuit of the LED and how cheap the components are in it. The ballast in CFL's is what fails because they're super cheap. If a LED bulb uses something equivalent they won't last their rated lifetime either.

It might depend on their orientation. Certain bearing types can't be used horizontally.

I like the 800RPM Scythe 120mm fans that use the Sony FDB motor rated for 150,000 hours myself.

Either way, I don't think the electronics driving the LED will last 19 years.

We'll file that one in the "Believe it when I see it" category.

Assuming it lasts 40 years. ;) We all know how CFL bulbs don't last anywhere near as long as they claim, why would we fall for it this time?

Sometimes. 2 orders ago mine were packed like that. Plastic clamshell wrapped in bubble wrap in peanuts. Last order no... The last order they left 'em in the plastic clamshell, and just tossed 'em in the peanuts.

ARGH!!! I bought two of these last Thursday before noon local time and the seller didn't even print the shipping label until today. Judging from how late I got the notice I don't think the postal service is going to see them until tomorrow. Good thing I'm not eager to get this machine...

That's 30MB/sec which is respectable.

Are you pushing or pulling across the network? FWIW, I found GigE network transfers sped up immensely when the gigbit NiC's were no longer on the 32-bit PCI 33MHz bus. PCIe x1 gigabit NiCs are great (most NiC's on motherboards are now PCIe). Interesting enough one of the gigabit NiCs in my P4...

I usually don't make the changes one at a time either. I usually have a bunch of ideas and make several of them at once too. :cheers: Then I never quite know what fixed the problem. :rofl:

Now you'll never know if you solved the problem or not because you don't have a confirmed procedure that manifests the error.

I disagree. The failure of the verification of the burned DVD would seem to point to data corruption in the storage subsystem, not the network (unless he got a super rare bad DVD blank and also has a network data integrity issue). FWIW, Windows file sharing tops out at about 47MB/sec over...

I'm not sure any of those thing clear your storage subsystem. There's no way to know there wasn't corruption on those tasks. Take a mp3 open it in a hex editor change a few random bits and play it back. I'd bet 99 times out of 100 it plays back fine. That doesn't mean it didn't have...

Well CPU Burn-in checks for errors. I've never had it fail, but it's great to check your cooling and that your power supply is up to the task. It probably won't help you find the cause of your problem. That would be a serious problem in my opinion. I assume you burnt the data on your new PC...

I like running Furmark & multiple copies of CPU burn-in (one for each core, but leaving one free to babysit Furmark) for at least 8 hours simultaneously.

I would have bought one of those instead had I known they existed. Oh well... I should be ok (I think).

If you go back to the same file on your XP machine it is still intact?

Yeah. I'm not sure.

Do you have a 3rd computer you can use to see if it's the old or new system? Also, I'd check to see if you've got jumbo frames turned on only one of the two system. (I'd suggest you keep them off)

My biggest problem as I see it now is that often the sync to time.windows.com or time.nist.gov fails. :( I've switched it to pool.ntp.org. Hopefully that works better.

Yeah, I thought about that too. I should probably sync at 25 and 55 and let my recording overhang by at least 2 minutes either way.

That's kind of funny. Did you have the heart to tell them they were two years late? :scratch:

I'll have to check the motherboard, but I think it has a non rechargeable battery. This wouldn't be much of a concern, but this machine also records broadcast HDTV that I watch, so the clock needs to be right. My current plan is to have the clock sync every 30 minutes on 27 and 57 since my...

No, why would that matter? The system is powered on all the time. I thought the battery was only used when the computer doesn't have power.

The system clock on my server loses time like crazy. It's always behind. It's a lot worse in XP x64 than it was in XP x86 (32-bit). Any ideas on what could be causing this? It seems like heavy disk I/O causes it to get worse. Just to give you an example the system is set to sync to...

They certainly spurred the advance of cooling technology. :rofl:

I don't think the one I bought is metal, but I'm not sure. link

Eh... that's not really what I was after, and I'm not about to pay $300 a year to rent the OS's. I'll stick to XP Pro for now. Thanks for all the insight guys!

Happy Birthday none the less! :beer:

I didn't realize that. :cheese:

It looks like there are coupon codes for 25% off the Technet floating around also.

Well the one does more than serve files. It runs some Windows apps, which there may be Linux versions of, but I'm familiar with Windows and the applications I'm already using.